On 2 June 1962, workers at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Works marked out of their factory workshops and set off to the party headquarters. Protesting against cuts to their wages (a result of Khrushchev’s policy of wage reforms) and rises to food prices, theirs was one of the boldest and clearest examples of worker unrest in the USSR since the 1920s.
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